Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Many worried about their weight are bewildered about how to take off fat. They are bewildered about what is the best means to go about getting into shape as they would like. They are confused about what works and what doesn't work, and why. There are countless individuals pumping away in fitness centers and gyms around the country right now.

They are working determinedly, virtually every day, on the bicycle, treadmill, stair-climber, etc., to burn those calories and fat. They also could be on the weight machines several times a week for hours at a time to build strength and muscle. They might even join a few spinning or aerobics classes too.

They are likely also using one of the latest diet strategies that promises fat burning miracles for losing weight. They could also be spending a lot of money on the latest and greatest dietary supplements that hopefully could be that miracle pill that will help them to lose weight. They are also warily watching the scale as their main judge of their progress in losing fat.

If it goes up a pound or two, they may behave hastily and possibly even adjust their entire workout or diet program!

After all, this is the type of stuff that many of the well-known fitness and diet gurus normally recommend to burn fat. But with so many different strategies and plans being promoted as the be all and end all, what happens is that we tend to go overboard.

And when that happens, we forget what really matters in getting lifelong fat burning, fitness and health. We lose sight of the principles than many people don't even know about, that most people have forgotten, and only a very few put to use to attain lifelong health and fitness. These are the same principles that many people have used to drop 20 to 50 plus pounds of surplus body fat, keep it off, and revitalize their lives!

With any exercise or nutrition program, you'll probably lose some fat to begin with, but far too often the progress stops or doesn't happen as fast as the person wants because they have a temporary mindset. They're only focused on the short term and one specific target. So they end up changing to something else, and the cycle continues until they've become totally confused.

This is one of the major, if not the number one reason for the lack of fitness progress and fat loss progress that is being experienced by the masses of dieters and exercisers in the world. They are switching from one exercise routine or fad diet to another, while losing sight of what's really important, and what really works.

Simply put, they are working out far too much, not nearly intensely enough, and attempting to follow worthless diet plans.

If instead they concentrated on a long-term plan, that is, a lifestyle, and didn't worry about "trying to fit into a wedding dress", they would discover it much easier to do the proper things most of the time.

And those correct things include short, progressive, and intense resistance training, eating a diet full of nutrient rich foods, drinking tons of water, and getting lots of quality sleep and rest.

---The students of the Fat Burning Furnace method understand this and are reaping the life-long health and fitness rewards because of it. How about you?